Biography

Hans-Georg Maaßen

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He was president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) from August 2012 until his temporary retirement in November 2018. His behavior and statements during the riots in Chemnitz in 2018 sparked much controversy. He was a member of the Werteunion until January 2022; according to him, membership had been dormant since May 31, 2021. On January 28, 2023, he became federal chairman of the Werteunion. He stood as a direct candidate for the CDU in the Suhl - Schmalkalden-Meiningen - Hildburghausen - Sonneberg parliamentary constituency in the 2021 federal election and was defeated by his competitor Frank Ullrich (SPD). On February 13, 2023, the CDU executive committee unanimously decided to initiate expulsion proceedings and immediately revoke his membership rights. In July 2023, a CDU district party court rejected the expulsion in the first instance and reversed the revocation of membership rights. Maaßen's election as a member of the CDU was not a success.

Since leaving the office of President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Maaßen has attracted attention with statements that sparked controversy. CDU party friends publicly called on Maaßen to leave the party several times and distanced themselves from his statements.
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Forced into immediate early retirement as a result of "unacceptable" statements made during a speech to fellow European intelligence leaders in Oct. 2018. Maaßen criticized in his speech "left-wing radical forces" within the Social Democrats - the junior government coalition partner - and their "idealistic, naive and leftist foreigner and security policies." [Nov. 2018].
President of the Federal German Office for the Protection of the Constitution (2012-2018).
German Extreme Right Wing Political Figure.
Active as Social media troll and provocator (2021).

I have experienced a lot of German media manipulation and Russian disinformation. But the fact that politicians and media freely invented 'manhunts' or at least spread this false information without checking it was for me a new quality of misinformation in Germany. [from his speech to fellow European intelligence leaders, Oct. 2018]

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